Why the Uganda Tobacco Control Bill Needs Protection from the Tobacco Industry

Uganda became a part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Frame Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in June 2007 signed a treaty that makes the country legally obligated to implement the treaty in good faith. This treaty motivated the drafting of the Tobacco control bill 2014 that aims to protect Ugandans’ health from tobacco caused…

Smoking around others? Thank you for Killing us!!!

‘This is very unbelievable, how can a mother be smoking near her children?’ thought Kahill as she walked passed her neighbour’s compound. She shaked her head and walked by, tradition dedicates never to interfere in other people’s business. But Kahill was not the kind to keep quiet, she had been nursing a sick nephew suffering…